Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

dreams

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. 2 other thoughts from Lope de Vega

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. 2 views from Eugene Ionesco

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. 29 more quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. 13 wisdom & wit from Amos Bronson Alcott

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. 5 quotes from Marya Mannes

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. 11 other views from Jawaharlal Nehru

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. 23 thoughts from Walt Disney

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. 4 more quotes from Paracelsus

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. 4 views from Paracelsus

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. 11 views from Manuel Puig

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. 23 quotes from Walt Disney

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. 14 sayings from Joseph Conrad

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. 5 quotes from Black Elk

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. 46 quotes from George Santayana

The interpretation of dreams is a great art. 4 more wisdom & wit from Paracelsus

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? 11 thoughts from Manuel Puig

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. 5 more thoughts from Jean Genet

All men of action are dreamers. 2 quotes from James Huneker

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. 19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. 5 views from Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. 5 quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. 56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. 11 views from Douglas MacArthur

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. 30 more quotes from Virginia Woolf

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. 12 quotes from Zora Neale Hurston

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. 3 views from Edward Kennedy

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. 56 more wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. 12 thoughts from Quintilian

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. 30 other wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. 12 sayings from John Barrymore

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. 25 quotes from Simone Weil

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. 5 sayings from Amy Lowell

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. 8 more quotes from James Dean

Dreams are necessary to life. 21 quotes from Anais Nin

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? 16 quotes from Havelock Ellis

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible. 4 more views from Henry Reed

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. 33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. 21 more views from Anais Nin

Dreams seem to have a will of their own. 4 views from Henry Reed

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. 73 more thoughts from Victor Hugo

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. 7 other thoughts from Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. 7 more quotes from Langston Hughes

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. 2 other views from Ernst Mach

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. 33 other wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

Learn from your dreams what you lack. 21 views from W. H. Auden

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. 6 more quotes from Charles Lindbergh

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. 5 more wisdom & wit from Theodore Sturgeon

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. 73 other views from Victor Hugo

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. 5 other quotes from Amy Lowell

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. 26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. 6 views from Ella Maillart

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. 21 sayings from Anais Nin

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. 3 quotes from Marian Anderson

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. 6 quotes from Jack Kerouac

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. 9 other sayings from Lawrence Welk

Dreams have as much influence as actions. 3 quotes from Stephane Mallarme

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. 11 other views from Rene Descartes

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. 18 other quotes from Joseph Campbell

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. 3 quotes from Herbert Kaufman

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. 2 quotes from Olive Schreiner

Saddle your dreams before you ride em. 2 more quotes from Mary Webb

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. 25 sayings from Charles Baudelaire

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. 9 other sayings from Vladimir Nabokov

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. 10 quotes from Booker T. Washington

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe. 20 wisdom & wit from Anatole France

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? 27 more sayings from Leonardo da Vinci

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. 3 other views from Jane Roberts

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. 26 more thoughts from Sigmund Freud

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. 3 sayings from Jane Roberts

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. 13 other views from James M. Barrie

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. 2 views from Joseph Heller

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. 9 thoughts from Margaret Fuller

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. 3 more thoughts from Lorraine Hansberry

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. 26 other wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. 10 quotes from Novalis

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. 2 sayings from Rudolph Valentino

But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily. 4 other views from Gilda Radner

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. 2 more wisdom & wit from M. C. Escher

In dreams begins responsibility. 28 quotes from William Butler Yeats

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. 4 sayings from Paul Gauguin

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. 15 more wisdom & wit from Norman Cousins

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. 28 quotes from William Butler Yeats

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. 5 thoughts from Gaston Bachelard

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. 28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. 7 more views from Judy Garland

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. 6 more wisdom & wit from Elias Canetti

Dream in a pragmatic way. 45 views from Aldous Huxley

Dreaming men are haunted men. 2 other thoughts from Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. 117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. 2 sayings from Matthew Prior

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. 5 other views from Frida Kahlo

I was a great dreamer of day dreams. 6 other views from Abraham Cahan

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. 2 quotes from Ernst Fischer

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams. 31 other wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes. 19 quotes from Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes. 19 quotes from Carl Jung

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? 6 sayings from H. P. Lovecraft

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. 6 wisdom & wit from H. P. Lovecraft

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. 2 quotes from Man Ray

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. 2 wisdom & wit from Man Ray

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. 6 quotes from H. P. Lovecraft

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. 10 quotes from Max Beerbohm

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. 6 wisdom & wit from Sara Teasdale

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. 15 more views from Walter Scott

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. 4 thoughts from Peter McWilliams

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. 10 quotes from Max Beerbohm

When you cease to dream you cease to live. 12 sayings from Malcolm Forbes

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket. 6 views from Emil Zatopek

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. 6 quotes from Emil Zatopek

My dreams are all follies. 10 quotes from Taylor Caldwell

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. 63 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. 24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. 28 sayings from Napoleon Hill

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. 16 quotes from Wallace Stevens

God, that dumping ground of our dreams. 13 thoughts from Jean Rostand

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. 4 quotes from Jonas Salk

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. 4 other thoughts from Jonas Salk

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. 28 views from Napoleon Hill

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. 16 more sayings from Paul Valery

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 30 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. 4 wisdom & wit from Jonas Salk